EDLA 615 Semester Reflection
BY: Haley Gibbons
Technology in the Classroom
Syllabus
Standards
- Raise awareness of the benefits of technology for k-12 teachers.
- Collaborative environment
- Integrate new technologies into language arts teaching to meet national and state standards to support diverse student learning at early literacy, middle school and high school adolescence developmental levels.
- Throughout this semester we discussed the importance of technology in the classroom.
- Each week were introduced to a different technology that we had assignments or readings on.
- We were often asked to reflect on new literacies in the classroom compared to the old school way.
- I found that introducing new literacies into the classroom can be extremely beneficial to both the students and teachers in many ways.
- This semester we discussed the ELA Common Core Standards and the importance of involving them into our lesson plans.
- We were also introduced to the ISTE Standards which are a set of standards set up for students to thrive technologically in the tech based world that we live in.
New Literacies
Below are some new literacies we were introduced to this semester:
- Blogger
- Glogster
- UDL Book Builder
- Online games
- VoiceThread
- Screencast
- Jing